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Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Noca, Flavio
URN	etd-08102005-132659
Persistent URL	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-08102005-132659
Title	On the evaluation of time-dependent fluid-dynamic forces on bluff bodies
Degree	PhD
Option	Aeronautics
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Anatol Roshko Committee Chair Anthony Leonard Committee Member Christopher E. Brennen Committee Member Hans G. Hornung Committee Member Morteza Gharib Committee Member
Keywords	Aerodynamic hydrodynamic forces PIV DPIV fluid momentum impulse pressure flow bluff vorticity velocity
Date of Defense	1997-05-20
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. We present some exact expressions for the evaluation of time-dependent forces on a body in an incompressible and viscous cross-flow which only require the knowledge of the velocity field (and its derivatives) in a finite and arbitrarily chosen region enclosing the body. Given a control volume V with external surface S which encloses an arbitrary body, the fluid-dynamic force F on the body can be evaluated from one of the following three expressions (in abbreviated form): F = [...] + body motion terms, F = [...] + body motion terms, F = no volume integral terms + [...] + body motion terms, where N is the space dimension, u is the flow velocity, [...] is the vorticity, x is the position vector, and the tensors [...], [...], [...] depend only on the velocity field u and its (spatial and temporal) derivatives. The first equation is already known for either simply connected domains or inviscid flows. We re-derive it here for viscous flows in doubly connected domains (i.e. domains which include a body). We then obtain the second and third equation through a simple algebraic manipulation of the first equation. These expressions are particularly useful for experimental techniques like Digital particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV) which provide time sequences of 2D velocity fields but not pressure fields. They are tested experimentally with DPIV on two-dimensional, low Reynolds number circular cylinder flows. Both steady and unsteady motions are studied.
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